"network of U.S. anti-slavery activists helping runaways elude capture," attested from 1847, but said to date from 1831 and to have been coined in jest by bewildered trackers after their sla [..]

A vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape from the American South to the North and to Canada, operating from the late eighteenth century to the end of the American Civil War in 1865. [..]

system used by abolitionists between 1800-1865 to help American slaves escape to free states.

Symbolic name for the secret network of people, routes, and hiding places that enabled African American slaves to escape to freedom before and during the Civil War. Although some white Northern abolit [..]

An informal network that helped slaves escape from the the South to the North or to Canada before the Civil War. The system was neither underground nor a railroad. Instead, escaping slaves traveled by [..]

The secret system by which slaves were enabled to escape to the Free States and Canada. (Oxford English Dictionary

Term used for the route used by runaway slaves to reach freedom either in the North or Canada. Eber M. Pettit wrote of the URR, "It had, like all other railroads, its officers and stations, e [..]

The Pre- anti-slavery resistance movement dedicated to assisting escaped slaves in reaching safe territory.

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